Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 1
OH, de worril is roun' en de worril is wide-- Lord! 'member deze chillun in de mornin'--
Who acts: de worril, Lord · What happens: be, chillun · To what, where: roun en, de mornin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song *. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de worril, Lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OH | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 worril | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 OH | punct |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worril | compound |
| 4 | worril | worril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 en | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 en | cop |
| 6 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 en | compound |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 worril | compound |
| 10 | worril | worril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wide | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wide | cop |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 en | acl:relcl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lord | punct |
| 14 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 chillun | nsubj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lord | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lord | punct |
| 17 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chillun | compound |
| 18 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chillun | compound |
| 19 | chillun | chillun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 en | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mornin | case |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 mornin | compound |
| 22 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chillun | nmod |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 mornin | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | de worril | roun en and member deze chillun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | de worril | roun en and member deze chillun not said here | wide property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | chillun | Lord | de mornin | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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